May 1980

River City Wrestling (since 1980)

May 1980

May 10, 1980

River City Wrestling #10 - Salisbury School, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Scrap Iron Gadasky won by disqualification over Puppy Dog Pelequin when Pelequin would not stop biting Gadasky, and then bit the referee. 6:39

Timmy Rich and Dusty Street fought to a double countout. 8:21

Paul Superstar (/w Beth) over Kenny Jay by pinfall after a flying elbowsmash from the top rope. 4:03

RCW World Tag Team Championship Match

Vegas Brothers over Dean Jarrett and Moose Morowski when Dice pinned Jarrett as Deeler illegally held down Jarrett's feet. 11:44

[Vegas Brothers retain the RCW Tag Team Championships]

Eric Lee, Mike Valiant, and Clark Roenick beat Chris Lyons, J.P. Moran, and Frank Hill in a six man tag match when Roenick pinned Hill after a flying clothesline. 17:30

Match for The Canadian Heavyweight Championship

Dino Bravo (c) over The Destroyer by pinfall after an airplane spin into a slam. 19:41

[Dino Bravo retains the Canadian Heavyweight Championship]

May 24, 1980

River City Wrestling #11 - Salisbury School, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Dean Jarrett beat Nacho Buerrera by submission with the brainbuster. 2:35

Eric Lee beat Scrap Iron Gadasky by pinfall after a German suplex. 7:17

Paul Superstar & Demon Gene beat Chris Lyons and J.P. Moran by pinfall after Gene spit mist into the face of Lyons. 13:12

Frank Hill and Clarke Roenick battled to a 20-minute time limit draw.

Coal Miners Glove Match

Timmy Rich beat Dusty Street after hitting him with the Coal Miners glove. 9:52

**Rich had earlier illegally hit Street in the back with a chair.

RCW Heavyweight Championship Match:

Mike Valiant beat The Destroyer by countout. 20:35

[The Destroyer retains the RCW Heavyweight Championship]

Breaking Kayfabe:

Lots to talk about. First off Chris and I were already getting pretty bored of the same guys. Left to our own, and both being big KISS fans, well it sort of spawned the first great stable in RCW. Paul Superstar and Demon Gene were the first two rip-offs of KISS to join RCW and rock it to its foundation. The mental images we had of a hot Beth as their manager, all decked out in tight jeans or spandex were also in context of the time.

Credit has to go out to my brother for turning the heel Tag Champions, into the first "tweeners" I had ever experienced. I remember him cutting a promo, about how the fans would cheer us against Jarrett/Morowski. I piped in that they could keep their cheers to themselves, only to be overuled by big brother Keeny Deeler who said it would be nice to hear the cheers for a change. As much as the fans disliked The Vegas Brothers, they hated Jarret & Moose more.

Another big decision was to have Canadian Champ Dino Bravo (a face) pin our champion The Destroyer (also a face) perhaps destroying all the credibility as an unbeaten champ that he had built up this year. Still, we believed highly in the Canadian title and didn't quite grasp the concept of a travelling champ playing the subtle heel to put over the local champion. It was actually a tough month for the champ losing one match by pinfall and another by countout. Is the paint starting to crack on the champion?